An advent calendar from Darren Hayman, Fika Recordings and friends. At least 2 free MP3s a day a day through December 2011 in the run up to Christmas.

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One of the highlights of this year has been meeting and working with a whole new wave of young labels and creative folk. Claypipe, price Odd Box, doctor 2nd Language, cure Fika, Pull Yourself Together and Audio Antihero are all doing it for love and not money. You should give them your love AND your money though.

My hope is that as a childless old fuck these young scamps will come round and feed and clean me when I’m put in the home. Bearing that thought in mind, today’s advent gifts are all from Jamie Halliday from Audio Antihero. Over to you Jamie. – Darren

Audio Antihero: Specialists in Commercial Suicide has been running since late 2009. I haven’t had a good Christmas since 2008. I’m hoping this year will change that.

The three songs we’re offering come from some of Audio Antihero’s favourite sons…brothers in arms…failures of the real world…champions of the internet…bitches of the blogosphere. Enjoy.

Broken Shoulder appears on ”Split” with Fighting Kites and his debut “Broken Shoulderrr”.

Nosferatu D2 – ‘It’s Christmas Time (For God’s Sake)’

When the Nosferatu D2 album first came out in October 2009, people seemed to really like us. That sadly did not last past Christmas 2009. Nevertheless, this is the final track on our first release and I’ll be more than happy if this is the last Audio Antihero released song you hear in 2011. But do come back for more.

A 6 track 10" EP from Darren Hayman in a hand screenprinted sleeve. Comes with digital download code and Darren's choice of Fika: a bag of loose leaf lapsang souchong and a recipe for Julia's Christmas Cake.

Fika Recordings

Fika Recordings is a London based DIY record label. We started in February 2011 and have so far released 8 cassettes and 2 records - Darren Hayman's Christmas In Haworth 10" will be our third vinyl release.
Every Fika Recordings cassette or record is painstakingly handmade. We screenprint and customise our record sleeves and our cassette cases are lovingly printed, cut and folded by our fair hands. Each release comes with a digital download code and the artist's choice of Fika - a tea bag and a recipe for a cake of some sort.
We sell all our releases as cheaply as we possibly can; you can order one from our online store or from good record shops.

Darren Hayman

Darren Hayman’s solo career has so far produced 5 full length albums, a wonderful January Songs project (a new song and video written and recorded every day in January 2011 and put online day by day), collaborations in a bluegrass outfit (Hayman, Watkins, Trout & Lee), an exhibition and album about people and animals in space (Vostok 5) and appearances playing bass with Rotifer. He used to play in a band called Hefner.